[Comment] Preprints with The Lancet: joining online research discussion platforms

June 26, 2018

The Lancet 391, 10139 (2018)

Author: Sabine Kleinert, Richard Horton, Editors of the Lancet family of journals

From June, 2018, the Lancet family of journals are starting a 6-month trial in collaboration with the freely accessible preprint platform SSRN, which has been part of Elsevier since May, 2016. With this pilot, we are interested to see whether health and medical researchers are ready for this form of sharing work early in the research or publication process.